Playing the last Canadian date on its We Are Pioneers tour, The Band Perry was as much a Texas tornado as a Tennessee trio in Oshawa last night.

And given this band has spent most of the last two or so years on the road, the energy level they brought to the General Motors Centre stage was nothing short of amazing. Siblings Kimberly, Neil and Reid were a blur much of the time, strutting, running and clearly enjoying themselves.

As Kimberly said of the final Canadian tour date, they “saved the best for last.

“Oshawa, how the heck are you doin’ on a Wednesday night?” she yelled. “We are The Band Perry and we are so excited to be in Canada tonight, thanks for having us.”

The band walked out on stage amidst a cloud of smoke to a roaring and eager audience and used every opportunity to interact with fans. At one point when they were on the extended part of the stage and a fan raised a camera to get a shot of Neil, he obligingly bent down and faced the fan so she’d get a nice picture.

Lead singer Kimberly did not leave one part of the stage untouched, strutting, dancing, waving her arms and even shaking her booty at one point -- all in six-inch heels.

She told the crowd that performing is “the great love of our lives ... one part therapy, two parts recess.”

The Band Perry performed an array of songs from both of their albums, starting off with the hugely popular DONE and then ripping into Night Gone Wasted. From the start it was clear that the band’s stellar performance at the Boots and Hearts music festival in Clarington last summer was no aberration: TBP gives it their all in concert, performing as if it was the last show they will ever play.

Taking it down a notch, the band’s fourth song was All Your Life, which featured excellent harmonizing by the siblings. Later, they played a pretty version of Amazing Grace.

The band’s set included a cover of Fat Bottomed Girls by Queen, and a bit earlier in the night Neil walked out with a Canadian flag, placed it at centre stage, and their fine fiddler played O Canada, with the crowd supplying the vocals. The audience jumped in big time at the end of the night, supplying much of the singing on If I Die Young, prompting Kimberly, with hand on heart, to say, “Thank you for that, Oshawa.”

Henry Gassmann of Enniskillen was the lucky winner of a pair of seats to the show in Metroland Durham’s trivia contest and half an hour into TBP’s set said it was a “fabulous performance, full of energy.”

Natalie Semehen of Toronto saw TBP at Boots and Hearts in the summer but obviously hadn’t had enough.

“We love The Band Perry; that’s why we came out again,” she said.

Taking a one-day break, the band travels to Bangor, Maine for its next show, scheduled for Jan. 31.

With files from Emma Nicholls

Mike Ruta covers the arts and entertainment for the Metroland Media Group’s Durham Region Division. He can be reached at
MRuta@durhamregion.com
. Follow DurhamRegion.com on Twitter
and Facebook